Excerpt from column on Nix in Hawkes Bay

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over 18 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

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over 18 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

This guy is an idiot:

"Closer to home is a Phoenix whose final fling, if mythology is anything to go by, at resurrection is due right about now. Okay, so technically it's one season but who are we kidding? The Phoenix are descendants of the New Zealand Knights , who in turn were the progeny of the Kingz. The differences are that the base has shifted from Auckland to the capital city and coach Ricki Herbert has done what should have been done ages ago - injected some strike power with Brazilian flair"

Was written by a guy called Anendra Singh, has some good columns at times , but this one is not one of them. The only he's got right is the Brazilian flair bit.

Just thought I'd share it with everybody.

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over 18 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

You'd think by know people would pick up that we're an expansion franchise, not a relocation

Hopefully that article goes on to acknowledge the off field successes, instead of portraying us as Knights + Brazilians.

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over 18 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

Well, not really ... does mention how they scored a major coup by getting LA Galaxy here, mentions the last few losses, how we might be last after the next game, and something about the Nix being a bunch of ashes in an urn on Soccer New Zealands mantlepiece. So not all doom and gloom

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over 18 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

Lysergic_Bliss wrote:

The only he's got right is the Brazilian flair bit.

I'm waiting to see it. Daniel has been a major disappointment - while full of activity he keeps on losing the ball. Felipe has shown it on the odd occasion.

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over 18 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

well a bit of flair is still flair

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over 18 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

The Knights had Chinese flair. I'd love to see Leilei Gao playing for the Phoenix. He was awesome. Oi Oi Edgecumbe2007-10-31 21:56:42

Oi Oi Edgecumbe... lets have a clean sheet

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over 18 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

give us an email address for this geezer - I am keen to let him know what he has got wrong.

All I do is make the stuff I would've liked
Reference things I wanna watch, reference girls I wanna bite
Now I'm firefly like a burning kite
And yousa fake fuck like a fleshlight

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over 18 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

what happened to all your posts? lol ... anyway, the only email address i have is: sport@hbtoday.co.nz ... just say the email is for Anendra Singh, your email might even go in our sports section in the paper, which would be hilarious ... Ive already sent a response to his column

Lysergic_Bliss2007-10-31 22:26:27

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over 18 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

Well I wrote an email to the guy, and low and behold, he printed it in todays Hawkes Bay Today, there was also another angry (more angry than me) supporter that wrote in as well ... good to see them printing supporters' points of view.

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